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テ形. A non-finite form of a verb or adjective primarily used to connect to a following predicate or subsidiary verb, with some secondary uses derived by ellipsis (e.g. of くれ or ください). In many cases it corresponds to English "and". Linguists often refer to it as the "gerund" form, and some have also ...

What does this grammatical structure/pattern mean?
I am trying to understand the meaning of the following sentence where the VerbてのNoun pattern appears.
"昭和64年に起きた誘拐事件を巡る物語だけに、“昭和な顔”を買われての起用だったという"
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I've seen several posts saying that と cannot be used to mean 'and' when linking clauses. They say it should be treated as 'when'. I have come across several sentences in my studies that do not support ...

I was re-reading my Genki text the other day regarding intransitive verbs and ている and it stated that when intransitive verbs take the ている form they exclusively refer to the state resulting from the ...

I was reading about the て form and trying to understand it, then I came across some sentences using て form and a question came into my mind:
What changes if instead of using the て form for all verbs ...

Context: The group is going to be attacked and one of the people is worried whether they will lose the fight or not and then the leader says what's below.
「祈りを持って戦うのだ。正しき者が負けるわけがない。女神を信じてここまで来たのだろう」
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I am currently trying to read Bleach in Japanese. So far I haven't ran into any difficulty that a good dictionary cannot overcome. However in this particular scene I am puzzled by a particular scene, ...

こんばんは。I am new to learning Japanese and this website. I usually try to learn things of my own initiative, by searching up specific things I don't understand and trying to make sense of them myself. ...

住んでいるのが好きです is a fragment of a sentence that is incorrectly constructed - the correct way to say "I like living in [place] would be 住むのが好きです. But why is this?
In the present tense, the usual way to ...

I came across すすんで行く and さいて行く in a vocabulary list, and it was immediately obvious that there was probably some sort of grammatical construct involving て行く that was in use here. I don't really know ...

In my textbook it says you can use the 読みます form to talk about habitual actions, such as
私はよく本を読みます
But I read on the internet (source) that the correct form for this is 読んで and the sentence should ...

I'm reading Murakami Haruki's ノルウェイの森 and, although I've come across many sentences I haven't been able to grasp too clearly, I recently came across one that was also funny to pronounce. Can anyone ...

Imagine wanting to tell a superior something along the lines of, "I saw/read/received your e-mail." In Japanese, there's sometimes something with using the te form along with words like くださる and もらう ...

Quick question regarding the -te form of the verb もっていく (to take). From my understanding the verb is a combination between もって+ いく(to go) and as such conjugates its -te form as もっていって is this correct?
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